Jennifer Sowerwine

Biographic Data

ID215332
NAMEJennifer Sowerwine
GIVEN NAMESJennifer
FAMILY NAMESowerwine
SIGNATURESOWERWINE J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0001-9544-0903
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Mapping indigenous California

    Open AccessSeth Larosa, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2026

  • Centring care as part of Indigenous environmental stewardship

    Open AccessMegan Mucioki, Michelle Baumflek et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Stewardship is broadly defined as ‘universal responsibility of humanity to care for the planet, to ensure that it can continue to provide the essential natural resources for life’. Stewardship practices shape ecosystems, create diverse biocultural landscapes, and can enhance the productivity, availability and health of plants used by Indigenous Peoples for traditional foods, fibres and medicines. In this paper, we argue that care is one key compo…

  • Unchecking the box

    Open AccessJeremy Sorgen, Peter Nelson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025References: 4

    Intergovernmental consultation between public agencies and Tribal governments is a critical component of affirming Indigenous land sovereignty and protecting sacred sites and cultural resources in land use and decision making. However, despite the growing prevalence locally and nationally of natural and cultural resource laws that mandate government to government consultation, achieving “meaningful consultation” remains elusive. This article anal…

  • Tribal sovereignty in land use decision making

    Open AccessJeremy Sorgen, Peter Nelson et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2025Cited by: 2References: 18

    Upholding Tribal sovereignty in land use decision making is an ongoing challenge, in part because Tribal sacred sites, cultural heritage sites, and other cultural resources exist in areas outside of Tribal jurisdiction. In 2014, California Assembly Bill 52 (AB 52) amended the California Environmental Quality Act to mandate Tribal consultation as part of environmental reviews. AB 52 creates a mechanism for Tribal consultation on a per-project basi…

  • Compliance is far from standard

    Open AccessPatrick Baur, Christy Getz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2024References: 22

  • Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (Ices) and Benefits under Changing Climate Conditions in the Klamath River Basin and Their Implications for Land Management and Governance

    Open AccessMegan Mucioki, Jennifer Sowerwine et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2021

    In the Klamath River Basin (KRB) of northern California and southern Oregon, climate-related changes, such as more intense droughts, varied and concentrated precipitation, earlier spring and later fall conditions, extreme temperatures, and decreased snowpack have contributed to increasingly unpredictable plant reproduction and harvest cycles. In this study, we explore contemporary relationships between plants and Indigenous People in the KRB, ide…

  • Does Urban Agriculture Improve Food Security? Examining the Nexus of Food Access and Distribution of Urban Produced Foods in the United States

    Open AccessAlana Bowen Siegner, Jennifer Sowerwine et al.ARTICLESustainability2018

    The aim of our review is to critically analyze the urban agriculture and urban food systems literature in order to understand the impact of urban-produced foods on community food security. We examine the role of city planning, food policy, and civic engagement in creating spaces for urban agriculture in cities across the United States, and whether (and how) these spaces promote food justice and food security. Bringing together multidisciplinary l…

  • Contradictions, consequences and the human toll of food safety culture

    Open AccessPatrick Baur, Christy Getz et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2017Cited by: 6References: 15

  • Thinking inside and outside the box

    Open AccessMegan Mucioki, Jennifer Sowerwine et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2017Cited by: 2References: 1

  • The myth of the protected worker

    Open AccessJennifer Sowerwine, Christy Getz et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2015Cited by: 7References: 3

  • Upland Transformations in Vietnam

    Thomas Sikor, Nghiêm Phương Tuyến et al.BOOKUpland Transformations in Vietnam2011

    Upland Transformations considers the effects of economic development, authority formation and landscape change within Vietnam's political economy on the country's 'uplands.' The contributors position the uplands as an integral part of political, economic and cultural processes at the national and international level, an approach that shatters stereotypes of the uplands as a separate ethnic and biophysical realm and raises questions about the assu…

  • Women's Rights to House and Land

    Nahid Aslanbeigui, Barbara Hopkins et al.BOOKWomen's Rights to House and Land1999

    Gender disparities frequently accompany rapid socioeconomic change, as cultural traditions that protected women—even as they constrained them—collapse in the face of development reforms. This collaborative volume, involving both Asian and U.S. scholars, explores the impact of changes in women’s rights to housing and land in three socialist countries that are moving toward market economies. The authors focus on such issues as property use and owne…